To the extent that women work for the free market business they are equally affected. The other women plugged into high level Government Jobs by quota hiring policies are safe within the government system where the boss can print money faster than the demand for the work disappears.

Just 'cause more women work in government and quasi-government (healthcare, education, etc) jobs, doesn't mean they are immune - it will just take longer to trickle to them. Also, those are not wealth creation fields, so good luck re-starting the economy based on those "nurturing" trades.

Actually, for months, maybe even the first year, after Katrina, there were a lot more men in town than women, and hardly any children. It was really noticeable. Lots of families, after evacuating, had to get their kids in school where ever they landed, and they stayed through the spring so as not to disrupt the kids' lives any more than they had to.

And so many men came in looking for work! If I were inclined that way, I'd have had a lot of very handy guys to choose from, from carpenters to painters to electricians to plumbers (ech, maybe not plumbers).

The neighborhood that I work in is one that was hit hardest by the floods, and every time I went out to find lunch at one of the very few places open, it was always filled with guys in jeans and tool belts. Likewise the grocery stores, bars, cafes - all the public places.

Wow. That took 5 minutes to say absolutely nothing - and the one on my right seemed to know it.

Having less money can suck. ( Insightful!!!) But now you have more money than that bastard you've been living with. (Hah. Fun!!!) Except now maybe he'll get all cranky and pissy-- just like you used to be. (Backlash!!!! Gender differences!!!)

We were one country once not just a bunch of little self-interest groups. That was last true around 1945 or so?

Yes, when we had Jim Crow segregation, had just put a generation of Japanese-Americans into concentration camps, and had Communist infiltration up the wazoo . . . I don't think it's possible to project backwards a time of unity when some Americans weren't scheming against their countrymen.

It's oddly sick to delight in others' misfortunes as these two ghoulish buzzards do.

I think for most people now who are part of families, you just want the best for all the members of the family, irregardless of gender.

They keep talking about how men are attached via their fragile egos to jobs, and it will be fun to watch those egos crack a little more. Maybe they'll even commit suicide. That would be great, because then there will be even more jobs for women, who apparently want just the money, but won't be at all attached to the jobs, they won't mean anything to them, since their egos don't need work.

It was incredible to see these two ghoulish buzzards rubbing their talons together as they watch the economic death of families across the country and what it might mean for their focus group.

I think Kirby must have watched a different video than I did. No one was delighting over anything. It was a sober, if not especially insightful, consideration of how more women become breadwinners as men lose jobs. That has real implications for pay equity and the fact that the average woman still only earns three dollars for every four a man earns.

Well that was a nuanced conversation. And what came out to me from Emily Bazelon is a greater understanding of the stresses families are going through.

So, more men are losing jobs, more women are breadwinners and that's a lot of change and stress in their personal lives. In the 1930s we had men who couldn't get jobs leaving their families so they wouldn't be a burden or to find work.

The discussion over historical trends and patterns in gender relations was innocent and I don't think the word "boon" or "victory" were used, though "silver lining" only as a way of saying "not so much." SO the vid doesn't answer Ann's question, or maybe says "no."

Wow, two women facing a national economic meltdown can chit-chat about their feelings. About how women should feel about losing fewer jobs than men have lost. And they conclude that gloating might be unseemly.God love 'em.

Most presidents are judged by their first hundred days in office. This guy is failing badly less than half way thorugh. When is Nancy Pelosi- the real president going to bitch slap the snow pussy and tell him what to say and do?

Once you adjust for things like hours worked and commute distance there's no statistical difference.

Most of the $0.22 difference comes from the fact that the jobs women tend to take aren't ones that earn good pay (teacher, for example). Within the same job there's little difference between the sexes. When you control for hours worked and consistency of labor (i.e. not taking time off to have some kids) the difference drops to something like one or two cents on the dollar.

In corporate drone jobs that don't really matter, women outnumber men. However in the jobs that truly matter like science, engineering, architecture men absolutely dominate. The few women that are in the field tend to be Asian women who manage to get along well with the men.